This is the front part of a bakery oven, without the door, which we found under sacking, dust and rubbish in the corner of the barn when we started.

We have decided to save it, clean it up with blacking and install it in to one of the kitchen walls to be a feature above the range cooker. We think it will help to add history and character to our home.

This is what the inside of the Barn looks like as we start this project.

And then we removed the ivy from the top of the front boundary wall. By the way the trees above produce cooking cherries - I can see charry cakes, cherry pies and cherry jam already!!

One of the first jobs wasd to cut off all the dead bits and pieces of ivy stalk that had probably been there for about one hundred and eighty years!!

Have just found these two pictures of the village of Naillat.
I expect I can take better ones, but these will do for now!!

Can't Gavin draw good pictures!! We started the plans for our home on the back of an envelope !! Have to admit, though, that the finished home will probably be slightly diffrent from this plan !! The longer the time between this plan and when we actually get started on the project the more little changes we come up with!!

Gavin is just showing off a few of the treasures we found at the Naillat market!

Can't help feeling that this is going to become a new hobby - trawling markets and fairs for bits and pieces!!